Indian Ocean Tsunami

An altar set up by a young fisherman, Prakash M., 20, sits inside a government-issued relief tent on the spot where his family's home stood in the fishing village of Perumalpettai in Tami Nadu, India, on January 21, 2005. His home was washed away and his mother was killed by the Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004; Prakash salvaged this water-damaged photo of his father, who was previously deceased, from the wreckage. Generated by an earthquake on the ocean floor, the tsunami devastated the fishing industry along the southeastern coast of India.

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An altar set up by a young fisherman, Prakash M., 20, sits inside a government-issued relief tent on the spot where his family's home stood in the fishing village of Perumalpettai in Tami Nadu, India, on January 21, 2005. His home was washed away and his mother was killed by the Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004; Prakash salvaged this water-damaged photo of his father, who was previously deceased, from the wreckage. Generated by an earthquake on the ocean floor, the tsunami devastated the fishing industry along the southeastern coast of India.